SOMERVILLE COLLEGE REPORT 2016-2017 Somerville College Report 2016-17 Somerville College Contents Visitor, Principal, Fellows, Lecturers, Staff 5 The Year in Review Principal’s Report 9 Baroness Jan Royall 11 Fellows’ Activities 12 Report on Junior Research Fellowships 17 MCR Report 18 JCR Report 19 Library Report 20 Members’ Notes President’s Report 23 Horsman Awards 23 Somerville Senior Members’ Fund 23 Life Before Somerville: Tina Green (1974) 24 Members’ News and Publications 25 Marriages 38 Births 38 Deaths 39 Obituaries 40 Academic Report Examination Results 58 Prizes 61 Students Entering College 64 Somerville Association Officers and Committee 68 Somerville Development Board Members 68 Notices Dates for the Diary 68 Legacies 69 This Report is edited by Liz Cooke (Tel. 01865 270632; email
[email protected]) and Sarah Hughes Fellows Annie Sutherland MA, Bhaskar Choubey DPhil, Visitor, (in order of seniority) DPhil, (MA Cantab) Associate (BTech Warangal NIT) Professor in Old and Middle Associate Professor of English, Rosemary Woolf Engineering Science and Tutor Principal, Joanna Mary Innes Fellow and Tutor in English in Engineering Science MA, (MA Cantab) Professor of Modern History, Winifred Daniel Anthony MA, Charlotte Potts DPhil, Fellows, Holtby Fellow and Tutor in (PhD Lond) Professor of (BA Victoria University of History Experimental Neuropathology Wellington, MA UCL), FSA Lecturers, and Tutor in Medicine Sybille Haynes Associate Almut Maria Vera Professor of Etruscan and Suerbaum MA, (Dr Phil, Michael Hayward MA,